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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 05/10/2026

A Democratic Party that refused to use its power to deliver for the working class ended up being a delivery system for Trump. If Democrats win power and once again do the same thing, they will be a delivery system for an even worse version of Trump - pass it on.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"If you set up a machine such that any question you put in will lead to an answer coming back out…you are setting up a view of the world and of knowledge that says, 'All questions have a discrete, knowable, objective answer,' and that's just not true and has no place in education." ❤️😍💯

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NJ Progressive @njprogressive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“At the same time, men in tight-knit groups feel considerable pressure to show loyalty to other group members, which may lead to ignoring bad behavior committed by their peers.” Here’s a thought…shut down the Greek system.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

If Democrats think winning back congress this year and the presidency in 2028 is enough, they are sorely mistaken. We'll be right back where we're at in 2032 with an even more fascist and white supremacist Republican party. It's not enough to win power.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates, leading to the disintegration of glaciers. They’re really just falling apart" Europe's glaciers are accelerating even faster on the road to oblivion www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years

Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution

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NJ Progressive @njprogressive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From Lina M. Khan: “Much of the commentary from the executives suggests they currently operate in a legal vacuum….In fact, their business practices — including how they develop & deploy their technologies — are already subject to longstanding laws.” Use them!! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...

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Opinion | Trump Wants A.I. Companies to Police Themselves. What Can Go Wrong?

Government enforcers have the laws and the experience to control A.I.

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“…what we need to demand from universities far and wide is clear: Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism. Cease to be a place where the consequences for sexual-assault victims are often greater than for the perpetrators.”

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Google maps has finally updated its Satellite photos of Gaza and it shows the most complete destruction of a city ever. A Genocide.

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NJ Progressive @njprogressive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh dear, and you had a teacher and other students to guide you. As I said, we shall see.

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NJ Progressive @njprogressive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just starting Absalom, Absalom! (my very first Faulkner), and hard doesn’t begin to describe it. We shall see.

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NJ Progressive @njprogressive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Helpful context from the United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum www.google.com/earth/outrea...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It is insane that Sam Altman talks about AI safety as though it is an option. If his crap causes damage, his shithole company is out of business, and he could well be going to jail. This is not a choice for him to make substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Sam Altman is Driving Drunk, Let Him Face the Consequences

People need to face consequences for criminal negligence

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A simple way to improve AI safety is to enforce the law. If Sam Altman knows that he will be treated like a drunk driver after an accident if his AI causes serious damage, he will be much more careful deanbaker22.substack.com/p/sam-altman...

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Sam Altman is Driving Drunk, Let Him Face the Consequences

People need to face consequences for criminal negligence

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” OMG 😱 We do NOT need more data centres for this garbage. Regulate AI. NOW #bcpoli #CdnPoli @mark-carney.bsky.social @davidebybc.bsky.social @emilylowan.bsky.social @ubcm.bsky.social

What happened next was astonishing: Van Rootselaar told ChatGPT about the account ban, noting she had specified “a famous real-world mall as the target” and herself as the perpetrator, but also claiming the scenario hadn’t been real. In response, ChatGPT explained why such violent content would be flagged—and then offered tips on how to evade its own safeguards. It advised Van Rootselaar to always frame her content as fictional or hypothetical in order to “never get flagged again” by OpenAI’s moderation systems.

“Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.”

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is corruption of the highest order. Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time and has rubberstamped his agenda to hurt Maine.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"We're uprooting fraud by getting rid of these freeloaders who keep paying into the system without taking anything back out" Genius.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026

“to the victor go the spoils” is basically the whole thing the UN was designed to prevent

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

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NJ Progressive @njprogressive.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨 “The climate crisis, caused by pollution from fossil fuels, is already supercharging extreme weather and killing people. The El Niño will ratchet up the impacts even further, and has already begun to affect regions across the planet as weather patterns are altered.”

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves!

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trans people are a slightly LARGER percent of the US population in 2026 than Jewish people were in Germany in 1933. Assholes who say trans folk aren’t worth defending because of population size are telling us exactly who they would have been in Nazi Germany.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Sludge @sludge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NEW: One in five members of Congress reports investments in AI developers, chipmakers, cloud infrastructure providers, data center companies, or private AI startups, a Sludge analysis finds. Here Are the Members of Congress Invested in the AI Industry readsludge.com/2026/09/18/h...

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Here Are the Members of Congress Invested in the AI Industry

One in five members of Congress reports household investments in AI developers, chipmakers, cloud infrastructure providers, data center companies, or private AI startups, a Sludge analysis finds.

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NJ Progressive @njprogressive.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“In Democrats’ case, the corruption of inaction takes a more discreet form that at once appeals to liberals’ fetish for pragmatism..”

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There are times in all of our lives when our character is tested, often without warning. It's important to have good character so you don't have to struggle over the decision.

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New Jersey Universal Healthcare Coalition @njuhc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"The health insurance business model demands premiums, then denies care… What other industry is allowed to take payment and then refuse service?" #MedicareForAll #UniversalHealthcare @hca-mn.bsky.social

UnitedHealth Group posted $6.2B in profits last quarter while simultaneously denying 32% of all prior authorization claims.
You paid your premium. They denied your claim. They kept your money.

Help us fix health care.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They’re going to claim that trace amounts of birth control in drinking water is a public health risk, and then make birth control pills illegal, aren’t they?

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 12/09/2026

political corruption is literally an apocalyptic problem — pass it on

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Like, the biggest issue for fairness in sport is that success is positively correlated with wealth, not because rich people are inherently better but because there are structural barriers to involvement in sports (participating, training, etc) if you are poor.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

It's not about fairness or competition or even caring about sports. It's just about hate

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026

Is it fair that the school on a shoestring budget has to play the one in the affluent suburb that has a budget for brand new equipment and groundskeeping for a shot at state finals? Fuck off lol

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